Portfolio - Italian Area

stefano cagol
selection of works
http://www.stefanocagol.com
STEFANO CAGOL
Via IV novembre 6 Revo’ 38028 Italy
Mob. +39.339.7054512
[email protected]
http://www.stefanocagol.com
RESUME
Education
1998 — Postdoctoral Fellowship, Government of Canada Grant Award Holder, Ryerson University, Toronto
1993 — Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano
1989 — Istituto d’Arte Vittoria, Trento
1984 — Primary Education, Bern
Training & Residencies
2014 — Resident Artist, AIR Bergen, Bergen
2013 — Resident Artist, Drake Arts Center, Kokkola, Finland
2013 — Resident Artist, VIR Viafarini-in-residence, Viafarini, Milano
2011 — Masterclass in residence, Default, AGM & Ramdom, Lecce
2010 — Resident Artist, BAR International, Pikene på Broen, Kirkenes, Norway
2010 — Resident Artist, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
2003 — Resident Artist, IOR – Corbyn Street, London
2002 — Resident Artist, Leube Group’s Art Program, Gartenau – Salzburg
2001 — Fellowship, ICP – International Center of Photography, New York
Grants & Prizes
2012 — Winner, Competition for an artwork for the new Martino Martini educational complex, Mezzolombardo
2010 — Winner, On invitation competition for an artwork for the new A22 gate in Trento, A22 Autostrada del
Brennero, Trento
2010 — Shortlisted, TERNA Prize 03 for Contemporary Art, megawatt category, Roma
2009 — Winner, TERNA Prize 02 for Contemporary Art, megawatt category, Roma
2009 — Shortlisted, Agenore Fabbri Prize, Vaf Stiftung, Frankfurt am Main
2008 — Winner, Murri Public Art, Bologna
2008 — Second prize, Targetti Light Art, Firenze
2008 — Shortlisted, Art & Ecology International Artists Residency, RSA – Royal Society for Arts, London
2005 — Winner for Trentino South Tyrol, SEAT Pagine Bianche d’autore, Milano
2005 — Shortlisted, MapXXL mobility program, Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes, Paris
2004 — Shortlisted, Premio Cairo, Cairo Communication, Milan
1998 — Grant Award, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg
1996 — Residency Award, Künstlerhaus, Salzburg
Permanent Public Art Installations
2012 — Novus Atlas, Martino Martini educational complex, Mezzolombardo
2011 — Tridentum, A22 gate, Trento
2009 — Spazio di Sintesi, Castello, Livo, Italy
2007 — Chess Time (Time Influence), Parco Mignone, Bolzano
Solo Shows & Projects (selection)
2012 — Sensor: Stefano Cagol, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
2012 — FLOWER FEAR – SLEEP TERROR, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk
2012 — Evoke Provoke (the border), for Media Facade Video Program, Museion – Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art of Bolzano
2012 — Vogelgrippe Kuhlraum, Westergasfabriek Cultuur Park, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2011 — CONCILIO, Collateral Event at 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Chiesa di San
Gallo, Venezia
2010 — Salon: Stefano Cagol, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
2009 — 11 settembre, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
2007 — The Flu ID, NADiff – New Art Diffusion, Tokyo
2006 — Bird Flu Vogelgrippe, off project, 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
2006 — Power Station, satellite project, 1st Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2005 — Lies, Platform, London
2000 — Contemporanea: Stefano Cagol, MART – Museo d’Arte Modernae Contemporanea, Trento
1998 — Entropia, Ryerson Gallery, Toronto
Group Shows (selection)
2013 — Maldives Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
2013 — Barents Art Triennale, Kirkens, Norway
2012 — Video Arte Italiano: 2004-2012, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
2012 — Alpenrepublik, Kunstraum, Innsbruck
2010 — Stirrings Still, White Box, New York
2010 — Contemporary Energy. Italian Attitudes, SUPEC – Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, Shanghai
2010 — Aktuelle Positionen Italienischer Kunst. Premio Agenore Fabbri, Stadtgalerie, Kiel
2009 — Into the Light, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp
2008 — Loss of Control. Abschiedsausstellung: Jan Hoet, MARTa Herford, Germany
2008 — Eurasia, MART – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto
2007 — Italy 1980-2007. Tendencies of the contemporary research, Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi
2003 — Places of Affection, IKOB – Internationales Kunstzentrum Ostbelgien, Eupen, Belgium
1999 — Whichkraft?, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York
1997 — Generazione Media, Palazzo della Triennale, Milano
1996 — Video Forum. 2nd edition, ART 27’96, Basel
Publications (selection)
2013 — Cramerotti, Alfredo. Eltorie, Aida. Ramadan, Khaled. Il Palazzo Enciclopedico. 55th International Art
Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Marsilio Editori
2012 — Belli, Gabriella; Volker, W. Feirabend; Ferrari, Daniela; Wolbert, Klaus. VAF Stiftung, Silvana Editoriale
2011 — Jansen, Gregor. Illuminations. 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Marsilio Editori
2011 — Boubnova, Iara; Jansen, Gregor; Robecchi, Michele; Viliani, Andrea; et al.. Stefano Cagol: PUBLIC OPINION,
Charta
2009 — Adriani, Götz; Jansen, Gregor; Weibel, Peter. Just what is it... 10 Jahre Museum für Neue Kunst im ZKM,
Hatje Cantz Verlag
Stefano Cagol, THE ICE MONOLITH, 2013
72-hours public art installation, ice block, 200 x 120 x 50 cm, 72-hours shooting
Riva Cà di Dio, Venice
Part of Maldives Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di
Venezia
http://www.icemonolith-maldivespavilion.com
What does it ask us? A monolith of ice of the Alps appears in Venice along the shore
in Riva Cà di Dio and melts in the summer sun. A kubrickian metaphor questioning
about the serious process that is affecting the planet.
Stefano Cagol himself, based in a village in the Alps and just back from projects in the
Arctic region, is witnessing the ongoing vanishing of the so called “eternal ice.”
Ice melts to water. The water of the monolith dissolving to the lagoon joins then billions and billions of gallons of water that in the next decades risk to overwhelm the
most sensitive areas of the globe. The Maldives is one of the first, but also Venice. Alps
and Maldives, ice and sun, so far but so close, connected by the same fate.
THE ICE MONOLITH is a three days action during the opening. An act of aesthetic and
emotional impact addressed to a wide audience, to attract attention and trigger
reflection. A metaphor, a disappearance.
Stefano Cagol, THE ICE MONOLITH. Fade, 2013
Video projection, 270 x 480 cm, HD video on Blu-ray disc, 7 min / loop
Realized for Maldives Pavilion, 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di
Venezia
http://www.icemonolith-maldivespavilion.com
Stefano Cagol, BOUVET ISLAND, 2013, installation, hand folded aluminum, 5 x 2,50 x
1,5 m. Venaria Reale, Giardini della Reggia, Gran Parterre, Turin
Contradictions, oxymorons. The installation takes its title and form from an island that
symbolically represents the opposites.
It is a Norwegian island, however, located in the Antarctic ocean, at the antipodes.
Very dark volcanic rock covered with snow-white ice, unapproachable, but rich in
wildlife, is one of the most remote islands on the planet, but has been involved in a
nuclear experiment among the most mysterious, the Vela case, never claimed.
Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013
Public art actions, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W
Diga del Vajont, Casso, Italy
Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti
Contemporanee
http://www.endofborder.com
Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013
Public art actions, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W
Oslo, Norway
Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti
Contemporanee
http://www.endofborder.com
Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013
Public art actions, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W
Kirkenes, Norway
Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti
Contemporanee
http://www.endofborder.com
Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013
Public art actions, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W
Skogfoss dam, Europe-Russia border, Norway
Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti
Contemporanee
http://www.endofborder.com
Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013
Public art Installation, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W
Kirkenes, Norway
Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti
Contemporanee
http://www.endofborder.com
Stefano Cagol, THE END OF THE BORDER (of the mind), 2013
Public art Installation, van, power generator, beam, 7000 W
Kirkenes, Bjørnevatn Mine, Norway
Realized for Barents Art Triennale 2013, with Pikene pa Broen and Dolomiti
Contemporanee
http://www.endofborder.com
Stefano Cagol, NOVUS ATLAS, 2012
Permanent public art installation, stainless steel, LED, 300 x 900 x 40 cm, ancient map
by Martino Martini, 50 x 70 cm,
Educational complex Martino Martini, Mezzolombardo, Trento, Italy
The project won a 2% national competition.
A symbolic new atlas, in which past and future, East and West, man and nature,
known and unknown come together to overcome the boundaries.
The installation is inspired by an impressive work of the past: the first complete map
of China, the Novus Atlas Sinensis of1655 by the Jesuit Martino Martini, to whom the
education complex is dedicated. By elaborating the external borders and the division
into 15 regions of the map / symbol, it creates a sculptural landscape that forms a
diptych with the same original map printed in Amsterdam by Johannes Blaeu in 1600,
part of the installation.
Image of the mock-up
Rendering and the creative process of evolution/translation from the ancient map to
the actual sculpture
Stefano Cagol, C, 2012, permanent installation, steel, Plexiglas, RGB LED, light
controller, rotating motor, 200 x 170 cm
Via Ventura 15, Jenny Collection, Milan, Italy
A legend tells that Maurizio Cattelan would like to realize an installation for this
loft. Now a C of copyright gives a permanent point of light to the headquarters of
contemporary art in Italy. It could be also the fist letter of the name of the collector
(Christoph), of the surname of the artist (Cagol), and at the same time recalls the first
letter of Cattelan…
Stefano Cagol, A Love Affair (dialogue of light), 2012, site-specific installation, 8 RGB
LED par lamps, light controller, Morse code rhythm of blinking, PVC curtains
Torre della Cappella (Torre Mozza), Piazza delle Erbe, Verona, Italy
Realized by Galleria dello Scudo for Start Up-Giardandoci intorno
From the windows of a Medieval tower in the core of the city of Verona, yellow and
red flashes blink alternately translating the main dialogue between Romeo & Juliet
into a Morse code of light. The secret of love, the wide public of the piazza, the
austerity of the tower trigger a multiplicity of layers.
Stefano Cagol, COMUNICARE SENZA COMUNICARE, 2012
Site-specific installation, banner, print on PVC, 14 m x 60 cm
Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, Trento, Italy
Realized for Piccolo Festival dell’Arte
As part of a festival about art and communication, the banner uses an Italian diafora
as figure of speech based on an opposite repetition that means “to communicate
without communicating”. This oxymoron opens the reflection of the wide public to
different ideas: i.e. the fact that nowadays fast and mass communication is often
empty of contents and of empathy, the pint that media don’t say the truth, or – on the
other side – the fact that you don’t need words to express yourself…
Stefano Cagol, Politics. Religion
(Fluentaphasia. Schizophasia), 2009
Installation, 2 roadsigns, 25 x 100
cm each, 2 poles, 230 cm each
Stefano Cagol, Freier Vogel, 2008
Performance and site-specific
installation, banner, print on PVC,
9 x 1.5 m
Faculty of Literature and
Philosophy, Trento, Italy
Realized for Piccolo Festival
dell’Arte
Stefano Cagol, VAMPA, 2009-2012
Installation, wall label, video projection, environmental dimensions
ZKM – Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Realized for Sensor
Courtesy VAF Stiftung
Video stills from the ZKM Videocast interview
Stefano Cagol, FLOWER FEAR – SLEEP TERROR, 2012
Site-specific installation, PVC banner, 9 x 1 m
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
This installation connects all the floors of the centre in a reflection on personal
fears and collective fears starting from two symbolical bias. Visitors are involved
in experiencing the ascending/descending spiral as a metaphor of actual chronic
behaviors and reactions influenced by the media, public opinion, politics, economy,
and prejudices.
The sketch
Stefano Cagol, EVOKE
PROVOKE (the border), 2012
Site-specific installation, video
projection, HD video, 4 min.
looped, 18 beamers, 400 m2
Museion - Museum of Modern
and Contemporary Art,
Bolzano, Italy
Realized for Museion Media
Facade
A circle of fire amidst snow.
The action takes place inside
the Arctic Circle, at a specific
time of day, when the light
dwindles to an hour of dusk
before making way for total
darkness. Attempting to melt
the snow and ice, a flame
is created from a can of
hairspray, recalling the actions
of urban gangs. It is a display
of power, an attempt to reduce
the “frontier of opposition”.
The video was part of the
CONCILIO solo project at the
54th Venice Biennale, and has
been reworked for the specific
situation.
Stefano Cagol, Vogelgrippe Kuhlraum, 2006-2012
Site-specific installation, 2 used fridges, labels, sound system, birds songs mixed with
G8 national anthems
Westergasfabriek Cultuur Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Realized by L’Ozio
Stefano Cagol, Fight or Flight, 2011
prints on PVC, 150 x 150 cm, 1 x 12 m
Fight or Flight solo show, L’Ozio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Courtesy L’Ozio
The banner is a slogan of survival kept from animal world, because animals – when
they feel threatned – don’t know whether to attack or fly away.
While the spiral of black and white keys – recalling a spiral of fear – is the symbol
of the Summer Olimpics of ‘72, theater of the terrible massacre acted by Black
September, a Palestinian organization.
Stefano Cagol, 11 settembre, 2011
Public art installation, selection of events occurred on September 11 throughout time and space, 27 labels, 20 x 60 cm
each
PAM, Ename, Oudenaarde, Belgium
Realized for Ename: Sediment
http://www.11settembre.org
As a new step of the 11 settembre project, the installation
sticks giant post-its on the bow window listing a series of
events occurred on nine eleven throughout time and space.
Starting point of the ongoing project is the fact that the artist
was born on September 11. In Ename the project adds new
meanings more because the museum has been opened on
that day.
Previous steps of the project have been realized at Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, at Kunstraum Innsbruck, at ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Stefano Cagol, CONCILIO, 2011
Installation, video projection, 270 x 480 cm, 20 min. looped, sculptures, steel, x 100 x 70
cm, 105 x 105 x 45 cm, 85 x 70 x 40 cm
San Gallo Church, Venice, Italy
Realized as Collateral Event at 54. International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
http://www.concilio-biennalevenezia.org
The historical landmark of the Council of Trent recalled from the title and from the
origin of the artist (born in Trento) is just the starting point of a reflection on borders,
physical and mental borders.
In the desolate twilight of the area above the Arctic Circle, the artist has done an
expedition in total solitude, taking with him just some means of signaling, danger,
flares, headlights he used for attempts of communication and crossing beyond
boundaries. Flaming an aerosol can of hairspray (like urban gangs use to do as act
of identification and of demonstration of power) he tried vainly to dissolve ice.
Symbol of immutability is also the sculptural landscape in front of the projection:
three steel crystals, three pyramids (three hills is also the origin of the Roman name of
Trento).
Stefano Cagol, STORM, 2011
Public art installation, neon, Plexiglas, 14 x 70 x 8 cm
San Gallo Church, Venice Italy
Realized as Collateral Event at 54. International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia
http://www.concilio-biennalevenezia.org
As part of the CONCILIO project at the 54th Venice Biennale, this neon installation
was a landmark lighting 24/7. Out of the San Gallo Church, the storm signal was in
contrast with the atmosphere of immutability of the landscape presented inside the
venue.
Symbolically the storm is also connected with the idea of the historical CONCILIO: the
Council of Trent that divided to keep together.
Stefano Cagol, TRIDENTUM, 2011
Permanent site-specific installation, steel, 16 tons, 4 x 16 x 10 m
A22 Trento-sud gate, Trento, Italy
The project won a competition by invitation.
The monumental installation won the competition by invitation for a permanent
artwork to enhance the new A22 gate of Trento, It is entitled TRIDENTUM: this is the
Roman name of the town that ideally sums up the three hills—the three teeth—which
identify the city surrounded by mountains. It is a new monument to the city and its
territory, a monument whose origins go back over more than two thousand years.
Images of the mock up
Stefano Cagol, Evoke Provoke (the border), 2011
Lambda print, silicone, perspex, dibond, 90 x 160 cm, video still from HD video on Bluray disc, 20 min. looped
Barents Region, Norway
Realized with the support of Pikene på Broen for the Barents Spektakel
The Arctic area of Kirkenes, located in the north of Norway and part of the Barents
Region in transition, is both the protagonist and the backdrop for a series of symbolic
‘actions on the border.’ On historical lines of separation that are changing, on the
border with Russia, on the edge of Europe, on the threshold of the human presence,
with the snow, with the rise and fall of the tide, with the light and dark.The actions are
fires, smoke signals, lines of light ...
Stefano Cagol, Evoke Provoke (the border), 2011
Site-specific installation, 16 flags, sewn fabric, 16 words, in Norwegian, Saami,
Russian, No 6: 200 x 300 cm, No 10: 120 x 180 cm,
Different places, Kirkenes, Norway
Realized for the Barents Spektakel
Courtesy of Pikene på Broen
White flags marked with words in the three languages spoken in the area—
Norwegian, Saami and Russian—were raised on the many official flagpoles that dot
the town of Kirkenes in Norway, bordering Russia: opposite the town hall, the harbor,
the police station, the mine which is the main industry of the place, and the Russian
memorial which commemorates the liberation in World War II. Verbs refer to ‘actions
on the border,’ such as cross, control, unite ...
Stefano Cagol, There is no flag large enough, 2010
Blu-Ray video, 4 min. looped
In Taranto, the dirtiest city of Italy, polluted by one
of the biggest steel works of Europe, Stefano Cagol asked
inhabitants to donate sparkling objects ‘against ash’.
He collected the objects during a traveling and standing
action (in collaboration with Valentina Vetturi) through
the different neighborhoods of the city and then he
realized a collective sparkling monument, marked
by a white flag with the black writing “Cenere” (ash).
The propaganda posters with mirroring questions
Stefano Cagol, Scintillio e Cenere (Sparkling and Ash), 2010
travelling and standing action collecting
sparking objects from inhabitants of the city, collective sparkling monument, various dimensions,
2 video, 4 x 6 m fabric flag, 12 m flag pole. Performative interactions by Valentina Vetturi.
Aragon Castle, Taranto, Italy
Realized for Intramoenia. Extra Art, curator Giusy Caroppo, scientific director Achille Bonito Oliva
The action with the spontaneous
intervention of people and the
collaboration of Valentina Vetturi
Sparkling objects
collecting action
during
the
The sparkling collective monument inside the castle
The ash flag outside the castle, looking at the sea, the harbor and ILVA steel works
Stefano Cagol, The Cow Lola, 2010
Site-specific installation, 6 hides, cow, calf, antelope, Belgian goat, French goat,
shaving, acrylic paint, environmental dimensions
Cognitive Science Faculty, Rovereto, Italy
A single name identifies animals that are very different from each other: Lola. It is
the classic name by which, in Italy—as in other nations—cows are called, according
to the Western custom of naming pets. This name—here given indiscriminately to
wild animals—refers to a scenario of cancelled out species, of a flattened variety, an
inexorably standardized nature.
Stefano Cagol, W, 2010
public art installation, neon, multiphase blinking light, aluminum structure, 240 x 240 x 150 cm
Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy
Here & Now. Bologna Art First, curated by Julia Draganovic
The list of Power of Recall, presented on the LED display, contains the names selected by the artist through
a first survey on the web and on Wikipedia, and a selection of the wide list of names proposed
via e-mail by the people of Vicenza recalling people connected in different ways with the city.
Readers answered to the open call of a local newspaper, Il Giornale di Vicenza for creating
a new collective monument to the city known for a unique character: the architect Andrea Palladio.
Stefano Cagol, Power of Recall, 2010
solo project, public art installation, LED display board, 30 x 700 cm,
red dots running text, Italian language
Palazzo degli Uffici, Piazza dei Signori, Vicenza, Italy
Realized by Fondazione Vignato per l'Arte, curated by Iara Boubnova
http://www.poterediricordare.com
Stefano Cagol, W, 2009
public art installation, neon, multiphase blinking light, aluminum structure, 240 x 240 x 150 cm
MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Realized by Error One for Into the Light
11 settembre shows a list of events occurred on September 11 throughout time and space.
Such as the birthday of the artist himself.
Stefano Cagol, 11 settembre, 2009
solo project, installation, LED display board, 10 x 100 cm, red dots running text,
different languages
Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
ZKM - Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
http://www.11settembre.org
Stefano Cagol, Allende Vive. September 11th, 2009, ink-jet print on paper, 21 x 29 cm, selection of images
of the events of September 11, through time and space such as the birthday of the artist.
http://www.11settembre.org
Stefano Cagol, Spazio di Sintesi, 2009
Permanent site-specific installation, neon tubes, 3 shades of white, 7 x 5 x 6 m
Castello, Livo, Italy
In a restored castle, seat of the municipality and the associations of a mountain
village, three neon lines suspended at different heights in the large central area
reproduce the shape of the three contours of that unique promontory—called
Mezalòn—where the entire municipality, made up of different villages, is located.
The outside is brought inside in a perfect correspondence between historical unity,
geographical unity and cultural unity.
The creative process from the isohypses of the hill of the village coposed my multiple
units, to the shapes of the light sculpture
Stefano Cagol, Politics. Religion (Fluentaphasia. Schizophasia), 2009
Installation, 2 roadsigns, 25 x 100 cm each, 2 poles, 200 cm each, light box on
duratrans, 100 x 150 cm
Both terms of the title refers to communication disorders, that look appliable also to
mass communication system. Anyhow they are diametrically opposed one to the
other.
The former describes a person able to build a speech, but unable to express
meaningful contents through it. While the latter idetifies the ability to connect contents
in the right way, but the disability to structure them in correct sentences.
Stefano Cagol, Wandervogel, 2009
site-specific installation, fabric giant egg, blower, 20 x 11 m, simulation
Project proposal for Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Stefano Cagol, The caw Lola, 2009
Rho print on marble, 33 x 40 x 1,5 cm
Stefano Cagol, White Flag with Red, 2009
installation, photopraph, plaster sculpture, label, environmental
dimensions
Stefano Cagol, Worm, 2009
fabric, blower, 13 x 2 m
Stefano Cagol, Are you an artillerist? Are you an artichoke? Are you an artist?, 2009
interactive installation, 3 aluminum mirrors, labels, environmental dimensions
Stefano Cagol, Light Dissolution (of the borders). Dissoluzione di Luce. Aufloesung im
Licht, 2008
Public art installation, beacon, 7000 W, north-south movement of 120 degrees, 3
passages per minute
Collina di Sardagna, Trento, Italy
Realized with the support of Provincia autonoma di Trento as Parallel Event to
Manifesta 7
The image of the installation won the Terna Contemporary Art Prize
A powerful beacon was placed on the border between Trentino and South Tyrol, a
border that does not correspond to the national one and that separates two different
cultures, German-speaking and Italian. Moving horizontally from North to South
above the city of Trento during the opening week of Manifesta 7, the line of light
underlined and, at the same time, canceled out the cultural, political and mental
border.
The light box with the photograph of the installation Light Dissolution (of the borders).
Dissoluzione di Luce. Aufloesung im Licht won the Terna Prize 02 for Contemporary
Art.
Stefano Cagol, Un-secret Signals, 2008
Public art installation, Morse code message of sound, 3 minutes 3 times a day, Morse
code message of light, 3 minutes once a day, 2 horn speakers, halogen projector,
1000 W, metal panel, CD player, PA amplifier, light controller, timer
Petrín Tower, Prague, Czech Republic
Realized with the support of Tina B. The Prague Contemporary Art Festival
On the anniversary of the Prague Spring, Morse code messages of light and sound
were spread out all over the city. They translated phrases with definitions of
individual and collective liberties, highlighting the incompatibility between the two
values. Visible and audible from the center of Prague for a few minutes, a few times
a day, they triggered a reflection on permanence, universality and the contradictory
nature of convictions.
A simulation
The morse code
The installation from the city center
Stefano Cagol, Confido Diffido.Trust Distrust,
2009
Site-specific installation, 2 horn speakers, PA
amplifier, CD player, halogen projector, light
controller, timer, terms in Morse code and in
Italian, Flemish, French, German, Spanish,
Arabic, Greek, Polish
The Ever Mass Land by Nadine, Brussels,
Belgium
A propaganda mechanism repeated two
opposite words: trust and mistrust. They
were transmitted on the road by light and
sound signals, encoded in Morse code
and translated into some of the many
languages spoken in the strongly multiethnic
Schaerbeek district in Brussels. It was
the national holiday of Belgium, a state
internally divided by disagreement between
Flemish and Walloons.
Stefano Cagol, Un-able to manage conflicts and shocks, 2008
installation, audio cassette, 45 minutes of sound repeatable, public address amplifier,
horn speaker, psychedelic colours-lamps
Realized for Fragile, group show, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
The installation translated an S.O.S. message about fragility through official Morse code
sound and unexpected colored psychedelic lights of the juvenilistic sub-cultures,
underlining the contradictory crisis-state of nowadays.
Stefano Cagol, War Raw, 2008
site-speci.c installation, flag, nautic fabric, 6 x 4 m
Umberto I Fortress, Palmaria Island, Italy
tefano agol, Flu Game,
installation, olymers industrial scraps, labels, environmental dimensions
Mart Museum of Modern and ontemporary Art of Trento and overeto, taly
ealized for Eurasia, in storage at Mart
An articulated series of irregular, rounded, fibrous, and organic shapes extends
creating tangles, knots, invasions, exchanges, and gaps. This varying landscape
is dominated by the writing “FLU GAME” — which on the contrary is plain in block letters.
The abbreviation flu means literally influenza (as physical, viral disease), but can also
invoke the idea of mental (psychological) influence …
Stefano Cagol, Guinea Pig. R.I.P., 2008
video HD, 6 min. looped
Realized for Guinea Pig, solo Show, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York City, USA
Stefano Cagol, Guinea Pig, 2008
public art installation, 13 x 1 m banner
HVCCA-Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA
Realized for Peekskill project
Stefano Cagol, Rat Life, 2008
poisoned sweets, black and white chocolate, almonds, rat poison
Realized for Guinea Pig, solo Show, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York City, USA
Stefano Cagol, Guinea Pig, 2008
series of 1000 metal badges, 2 cm, 10 word combinations
Realized for Guinea Pig, solo Show, Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York City, USA
Stefano Cagol, Freier Vogel, 2007 - 2008
one-year-long installation, banner, inkjet on PVC, 13 x 2 m
Prader Private Bank, Bolzano, South Tirol
Stefano Cagol, Own, 2008
cinetik box, Plexiglas, special fabric, rotating motor, neon tubes, 120 x 120 x 20 cm
Stefano Cagol, Chess Time (Time Influence), 2007
permanent installation, chess platform, black and white
stones, Italian and German engraved words, 8 x 8 m
Realized for Time Code, Parco Mignone, Bolzano, South Tirol, Italy
Stefano Cagol, Dark & Light, 2007
Video still from HD video, Lambda print, silicone perspex, dibond, 75 x 100 cm
Stefano Cagol, War Game. Uncle Sam (Made in China), 2007
installation, fabric sky ,dancer, blowers, 8 x 4 m
Realized for From and To, group show, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano
Stefano Cagol, War Game. Occupation Game, 2007
site-specific installation, 35 double-face PVC flags
ags, white and red colors of Tirol flag
Via Portici, Merano. Italy
Realized for From and To, group show, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano
Stefano Cagol, War Game. Occupation Game, 2007
public art installation & action, majorettes and marching band, selection of military
marches and a Star Wars march, 35 flags, badges
Realized for From and To, group show, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano
Stefano Cagol, Flu Power Flu, 2007-2012
5 years-long installation, neon tubes, Plexiglas, metal structure, blinking light, 12 x 2 m
Beursschouwburg Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.flupowerflu.com
Stefano Cagol, Combinations Game, 2007
workshop and action, 17 hand-made cardboard letters
Museion-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Italy
Realized for Museion Summer Lab
Stefano Cagol, Head Flu, 2007
public art intallation, 2 balloons, labels, 3 m, 50 m3 helium, 40 m cable, 3500 badges
Tronchetto Island, Venice
Stefano Cagol, Vogelgrippe Kuhlraum, 2006
installation, second-hand fridge, labels, sound mixing birds songs and national anthems
Harry Malter Park, Ghent, Belgium
Realized for ZOO logical garden, curated by Angelique Campens
Stefano Cagol, Power Station, 2006
traveling project, installation / action, white van, labels, mix of G8 and
Asian national anthems, 3000 metal badges, 10 word combinations, 2 girls, 3000 flyers
Shenton Way, Singapore
Satellite event, Singapore Biennale
http://www.powerartifice.com
POWER STATION features a white van traveling and stopping by various neighborhoods.
During each stop, the national anthems of selected countries emanate from the van,
while badges bearing words such as "Sex Power", "Money Power", and "Media Power"
are distributed to the public.
The wordds "POWER STATION" emblazoned onto the van continue Cagol’s investigations
into contemporary influences, challenging the understanding of identity
in relation to authority, nation-hood and globalization.
Stop in front of the fascist monument realized in Bolzano, Alto Adige-South Tyrol,
during the fascist action of italianization of the German speaking Italian border region.
Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe is a work in progress that develops in different locations, between Trento and Berlin,
documented with photography and video. Bird Flu / Vogelgrippe creates an in-depth study underlining the
idea of an influence of power and the media on our daily lives by creating and communicating the case
amplifying information and throwing information that bombs us every day back to the people. A public
audience encounters an aseptic truck parked in front of every art structure and meaningful place
in a various metropolitan centers. On the van’s sides are the big words “Bird Flu,” emanating birds songs.
With this work the artist creates and diffuses a speci.c lexicon of mental influences – the atavic ones and the
typical of our time – through new associations of ideas between the “flu” term. Asking spectators how they
interpret and are influenced by Art Flu, Politics Flu, War Flu, Sex Flu, Ass Flu, Religion Flu, Star Flu… newly
invented diagnosis which mirror the hazardous focal points of our society.
Stefano Cagol, Bird Flu Vogelgrippe, 2006
traveling project, installation / action, white van, labels, birds songs sound, badges,
from Trento to Bolzano, Innsbruck, Nuernberg, Berlin. Off project of 4th Berlin Biennale
Realized with the support of Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento,
Museion-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bolzano, Kunstraum Innsbruck
http://www.birdfluartifice.com
Bird Flu van in fron of the Nazi Zeppelin Tribune in Nuernberg, Nazi massive events venue
In Auguststrasser in Berlin as special
event of the 4th Berlin Biennale
The map of the trip from Trento to Berlin
Siegessaule, Berlin
Stefano Cagol, Lies, 2004-2006
triple video screen installation, video DVD, 25 min looped
Superdeluxe, Tokyo, Japan
Stefano Cagol, White Flags, 2005
site-specific installation, 3 white .ags instead of the 3 national flags (Italian, European, Austrian)
Forte Strino, WWI fortress, Tonale Pass, Italy
Realized forAtomicwerk, solo show
http://www.white-.ags.com
Stefano Cagol, White Flags, 2005
action, white Marianna with 10 white flags on her fingers, 1000 white flags
White flag dress by Jaana Parkkila
water and Giardini, Venice, Italy
Stefano Cagol, Babylon Garden, 2005
Wire mesh, red, green and yellow rope lights, blinking blue rope light, 8 feline,
handmade white ceramic, handmade red ceramic
Villa Tonda, Ansedonia, Italy
Realized for Pensieri sul relativismo
A cage, bright and flashing like a glimpse of a city, has swallowed and closed within
the irregular metal tangle a porcelain cat, while others are placed outside as forward
observers.
Stefano Cagol, Meet to the Center, 2004
Digitized 35 mm photograph, Lambda print, silicone perspex, dibond, 75 x 120 cm
each
Tokyo, Japan
Stefano Cagol,Grey
Energy,2003
Video still from DV
video, Lambda
print, silicone,
perspex, dibond,
100 x 125 cm
Stefano Cagol, Horizon # 1 – # 5, 2002-2004
Lambda print, silicone, perspex, dibond, 30 x 80 cm, video still from DV video on DVD,
6 min. tot.
New York, USA
Stefano Cagol, Flux O, 2002
Lambda print, silicone, perspex, dibond, 30 x 80 cm,
video still from Dv video on DVD, 2 min. looped
Stefano Cagol, Flux O, video
DVD, 120 sec. looped
Stefano Cagol, Goldfish on the Bridge, 2001
Public art installation, PVC sheet, 10 x 15 m,
PANI projection, 10 slides
Ponte Druso, Bolzano, Italy
Realized with the support of the Municipality
of Bolzano for Ponti d’artista
A goldfish as a symbol of prosperity and luck.
This ancient symbol of Eastern origin was
chosen as an alternative to usual Christmas
lights. Not small, but huge, not in the water,
but on a bridge, not seen through the glass
of a crystal bowl, but very close up. Hieratic
like a sacred icon that has transcended the
centuries.
Stefano Cagol,
Becoming an Angel,
1998
Video installation, Hi8
video, transferred to
DVD, 60 sec. / loop, 20
dust masks, glow
paint, environmental
dimensions
Salzburg International
Summer Academy of
Fine Arts, Hallein,
Austria
With the participation
of of Pola Sieverding
Stefano Cagol, Monito. Monition. Mort Nucleaire, 1995
VHS video, transferred to DVD, 14 min / loop
Courtesy the artist and Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento
The sound of an atomic explosion was gradually expanded to the extreme to become
similar to a symphony of string instruments. While the images of the documentation of
nuclear tests also seem altered, having been repeatedly reproduced and shot on the
TV monitor, using an exclusively manual operation.